Panda 2009 Shortlists

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Below are the final shortlists for the Panda Book Awards 2009 in all reading categories.


YOUNGER READERS (lower elementary - picture books)
  1. Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman
  2. Bat's Big Game by Margaret MacDonald
  3. The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
  4. Harris Finds His Feet by Catherine Rayner
  5. How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham
  6. Little Boat by Thomas Docherty
  7. Molly and the Night Monster by Chris Wormell
  8. One Boy By Laura Vaccaro Seegar
  9. Planting the Trees of Kenya : the Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola
  10. Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
  11. Sunday Chutney by Aaron Blabey
  12. When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach

MIDDLE READERS (upper elementary)
  1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Greg Heffley's Journal by Jeff Kinney
  2. Great Bear Lake by Erin Hunter
  3. Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka
  4. Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
  5. Manolito Four-Eyes by Elvira Lindo
  6. Marley : a Dog like no Other by John Grogan
  7. My Brother's Hot Cross Bottom by Jeremy Strong
  8. No Talking by Andrew Clements
  9. Polar Boy by Sandy Fussell A
  10. Rapunzel' Revenge by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
  11. Treasure Fever by Andy Griffiths
  12. The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry

OLDER READERS (middle school)
  1. Airman by Eoin Colfer
  2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  3. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
  4. Laika by Nick Abadzis - Graphic Novel
  5. The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
  6. Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
  7. Ringmaster by Julia Golding
  8. The Savage by David Almond - Graphic Novel
  9. Scat by Carl Hiaasen
  10. Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
  11. The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle - Poems
  12. Toby Alone by Timothee De Fombelle

MATURE READERS (high school)
  1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  2. City of Bones by CassandraClare
  3. Creatures of the Night by Kate Thompson
  4. Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
  5. Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
  6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  7. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  8. Life Sucks by Jessica Abel
  9. Nation by Terry Prachett
  10. Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper
  11. Tamar by Mal Peet
  12. Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong